Barnes & Noble is one of my favorite book stores here in town. I just recently checked their iPhone app and I was very impressed.
B&N Bookstore is the name of the app in App Store should you search for it. Let’s see how this free iPhone App measures up beyond the basic functionality of searching for books, music & dvds.
In the first screen you’d see a bookcase where you can swipe to see book covers like in a carousal. Under that is the area where you see different sections like Recommendations, Bestsellers, New Realeases, Review & Studio. This is tagged as the Discover section and is like virtually strolling through the bookstore.
I was looking at the Bestsellers and you can see the online and list prices there. Nice.
One of the newest features is that now you can read book reviews right from your iPhone! Extra nice!
Now comes the cool factor for you iPhone owners. Let’s say you have a book in front of you that you want to check a price for.
Go to the ‘Search’ page and click on the green camera button. Take a picture of your book cover and the app will find your book from the millions of books in the store!
Amazon’s iPhone App has had this feature for a while but I was still impresses with how accurately and swifty it found this Drupal Book for me.
And the Stores page lets you quickly find a Barnes & Noble around you with a simple click of the familiar ‘Locate me’ button near the search box.
B&N Bookstore App is a must have for a book lover, IMHO. Plus, the the price can’t be more right – Free.
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